Many Christians have said to me that they like to believe in evolution and the Bible. They say that God used evolution to “create” the world.
I would like to ask these Christians a few questions.
- The Biblical account of Creation in Genesis seems very specific with six days of creative activity, each having an evening and a morning. Also the Biblical account of creation has the order all wrong according to the evolutionary view. Do you think that God should have inspired an account more in keeping with evolution, the truth as you see it, if He did use evolution to create everything? Why do you think God had an account recorded that was not accurate to the evolution view?
The Bible says that Adam was created from “the dust of the ground” and when he died he would ” return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” If you believe that the dust Adam was created from represents an ape from which he evolved, did he turn back into an ape when he died?- According to the evolutionist’s understanding, the fossil record shows death, disease and bloodshed before people. Doesn’t that mean that if you believe that evolution is the way God used to create the earth then you cannot believe the Bible when it says in Romans 5 :12, “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” and in Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death”? If death and suffering didn’t arise from Adam’s sin and the resulting curse then how can Jesus’ suffering and physical death pay the penalty for sin and give us eternal life, as the Bible clearly says in 1 Corinthians 15:21 and 22, “For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”
- If the Genesis account of Creation, The Fall, the origin of Nations, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel – the first 11 chapters – are not historical, although they are written as historical narrative and understood by Jesus to be so, what other parts of the Bible do you disregard? What herminutical principle do you use to determine what is myth and what is historical narrative?
- If God created an evolutionary world, so that it is getting better and more perfect over a long time period, why should God want to destroy it and create, “new heavens and a new earth” (2Peter 3:13, Rev 21:1)
- As I understand it, Darwin formulated the evolution theory to eliminate God from the realm of biological origins. Isn’t it a bit strange to try and put God (Theism) with evolution (naturalism)? If God created using the mode invented to make Him unnecessary, how can God’s “eternal power and Godhead” be “Clearly seen” in creation as Romans 1:20 says?
- In Genesis 1:31 God describes His just-finished creation as “very good”. How do you understand the goodness of God if He used evolution, ‘death, destruction and survival of the fittest’ to create everything?
- As I understand it, there is no purpose, no direction and no goal in evolution. The God of the Bible is all about purpose. How do you reconcile the purposelessness of evolution with the purposes of God? What does God have to do in an evolutionary world? Is not God an unnecessary hypothesis?
- If you read the Genesis account of Creation, without an evolutionary mind-set, what do you actually discover about the way God created the universe? Doesn’t God warn about adding to scripture? If you cannot come up with evolution as the means of creation without outside, extra teaching, shouldn’t you be very careful?
- Why do we use the word ‘Universe’? Doesn’t it mean ’single – Uni, spoken sentence – verse’? “And God said ‘Let there be…’”
Have a great day,
Deborah Drapper
